0.3 Fragmentary authors

Edited by John Dugan, SUNY Buffalo (jdugan@buffalo.edu)

Works that survive only in fragments must always be read within the context of the works that preserve them, and editions of fragmentary authors will in the end therefore be no more reliable than the editions of the texts from which those fragments are collected. Though editorial standards and interpretative strategies have improved significantly over the last century, all editions must be used with caution, and older editions with particular caution.

General

Warmington, E. H. Remains of Old Latin Poetry . 4 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA. 1935-40. Rev. ed. 1956 (Vol. 1). 1967 (Vol. 3).

Vol. 1: Ennius, Caecilius Vol. 2: Livius, Naevius, Pacuvius, Accius Vol. 3: Lucilius, Twelve Tables Vol. 4: Archaic Inscriptions

[A comprehensive edition with facing English translation, still very useful, but not generally cited as authoritative. Latin texts should be checked against those of better editions and the suggested reconstructions and interpretations must be used with extreme caution. Note that the numbering system is not the same as that used by other editions. A six-volume replacement edition under the general title Fragmentary Republican Latin is currently in preparation under the editorial supervision of Gesine Manuwald.]

Some less familiar authors and works including Publilius Syrus, the Elegiae in Maecenatem , Grattius, Calpurnius Siculus, the Laus Pisonis , the Aetna , Nemesianus, Responsianus, Tiberianus, the Dicta Catonis , Avianus, and Rutilius Namatianus) are available in J. Wight Duff and A. M. Duff, Minor Latin Poets (LCL 1934, repr. 1961). The Consolatio ad Liviam , on which there is a commentary by H. Schoonhoven (Groningen 1992), is found in J. H. Mozley, Ovid: The Art of Love and Other Poems (LCL 1929, repr. 1962.

Epistolary fragments

Cugusi, P. Epistolographi Latini Minores . Turin, 1970. v. 1 Aetatem anteciceronianam amplectens: 1. Testimonia et fragmenta. 2. Commentarium criticum.

v. 2. Aetatem ciceronianam et augusteam amplectens: 1. Testimonia et fragmenta. 2. Commentarium criticum.

[Edition with commentary in Latin.]

Malcovati, E. Imperatoris Caesaris Augusti operum fragmenta . Turin: Paravia, 1948.

[A useful collection of basically everything except the Res Gestae with brief annotation in Latin, especially helpful for its collection of letters by the princeps .]

Weyssenhoff, C. Ciceronis epistularum fragmenta . Wroclaw (Poland), 1970.

[Edition with commentary in Latin.]

Grammatical fragments

Funaioli, G. Grammaticae Romanae Fragmenta Stuttgart: Teubner, 1907 (reprinted 1959).

[The standard edition of the fragments of ancient Roman writing on language and grammar along with testimonia for each author. Note that the sweep is broad, from technical writers to familiar names like Accius, Caesar, Cicero, and Varro. Generally cited as ‘Funaioli’ with author and fragment number.]

Keil, H. Grammatici Latini , 8 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1857 (reprinted Darmstadt 1961).